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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Judge tenderly of me.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Friends are nations in themselves.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I tasted life.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
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Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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I still believe in a place called Hope.
Bill ClintonBill Clinton I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
Clark GableClark Gable The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
Simone WeilSimone Weil God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
Therese of LisieuxTherese of Lisieux The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
Clark GableClark Gable Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau There is a world up ahead where people are not targeted for beliefs or bodies, where peace isn’t a fantasy but reality. Build the world you hope your children will see.
Aija MayrockAija Mayrock What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale
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